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News release: Colorado - Denver/BoulderJuly 16, 2001 For more information, call: Denver physician elected to national medical ethics panel Denver, CO – Dr. Mark Levine, an internal medicine physician in Kaiser Permanente's East Denver Medical Office, has been elected to the American Medical Association (AMA) board that sets national guidelines on medical ethics. Levine will serve a seven-year term on the nine-member Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. He was nominated by the AMA president and elected by the AMA's House of Delegates. The council wrestles with issues such as fetal research, genetic testing, organ transplant guidelines, and commercial use of human tissues. It develops reports on a variety of ethical issues, which become official AMA policy once they are adopted by the House of Delegates. The council also listens to physicians' appeals of ethics-related decisions made by state and specialty medical societies. Levine chairs the Colorado Patient Safety Coalition and is a member of Kaiser Permanente's Patient Safety Committee. "I hope to encourage the council to explore the intertwining of ethical issues with patient safety," Dr. Levine says. "That means ethical questions raised in the context of reporting errors, peer review, and our reactions to untoward events in health care." Levine has served on the Colorado delegation to the AMA House of Delegates since 1989. He is associate clinical professor of medicine and preventive medicine/biometrics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.
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